Crate Paper Cute Girl

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This month I’ve been working with one of Crate Paper’s new collections – Cute Girl. I love their Cool Kid collection too – both these releases are in my favourites this year for sure. Alongside the very lovely papers there are many gorgeous embellishments – chipboard, vellum, die cuts, puffy stickers, foiled stickers, wood veneer, acetate, resin, rubber…almost any medium you can think of!

I had to add a flamingo to this page of my daughter on her 3rd birthday, posing with her flamingo cake. We went to the beach for the day and had a little birthday lunch on the sand. We got lots of comments on the cake from passers by! This flamimgo came from a Simple Sories collection – You Are Here! I layered up papers from the collection along with some die cuts, stickers and chipboard to frame my photo. The vellum reminded me of confetti, so it felt apt for a birthday page, and I love the texture that the puffy sticker title gives. I used some Nuvo crystal drops in Carnation Pink and Caribbean Blue dotted around the page too.


For my second page I opted for a grid effect design, using two photos, two 3×4 designs (one from the die cut pack and one from the cut apart sheet), and two pieces of patterned paper. I added embellishments and wording so as to link all of the boxes and join everything up so that nothing was “floating” on the page. I turned the little girl doll embellishment into a flying fairy and gave her a wand from the sticker sheet. I adore these photos, they’re full of such joy. She always asks to go “super high” to the clouds, and would happily stay on the swings all day!

 


I made a third page of my daughter next (I ought to challenge myself to use this collection with photos of someone or something different next time!) but used an older photo, from a couple of weeks after she was born. This was the announcement card we sent out to people, so the text was already printed onto the photo.

 
I made a background by cutting papers diagonally and mounted on a spare piece of card stock for strength. On top of this I layered my photo and papers, with some printed vellum and the girl card from the die cut pack. My title was made using puffy stickers, chipboard from the 12×12 sheet, and Thickers from American Crafts DIY Shop 4. I also used several little puffy gold heart stickers on all my pages from that DIY Shop collection – an essential! I’m so happy to have this photo scrapped.